Tang Fan had another complaint to make about Qian Daoliu.
"Tang Chen, a level 99 Peerless Douluo, raised a bunch of Clear Sky Sect disciples so arrogant they were conceited. Most of the other sects on the Douluo Continent feared the Clear Sky Sect too.
"Yet Qian Daoliu, another level 99 Peerless Douluo, doesn't seem to inspire much fear at all. Why do you think that is?"
Bibi Dong was taken aback by Tang Fan's sudden question and instinctively asked, "Why?"
"Because he set himself up as a good guy. Good guys get guns pointed at them.
"Although I called him disloyal, unkind, and unrighteous before, looking back over Qian Daoliu's life, he really could be said to have lived with complete integrity, worthy of an angel's light and justice."
Qian Daoliu felt somewhat better when he heard that, but Tang Fan's next words made his face darken again.
"However, the Douluo Continent is no place of peace and fellowship. If you set yourself up as a good guy there, you're just asking to be bullied.
"Others can encroach on your interests, and because you're a good guy, you have to give up a share of them.
"As long as they don't cross your bottom line, you can't make a move. You've boxed yourself in completely.
"I have to say, that's pretty stupid. What we advocate now is kindness with a sharp edge, not being a pushover."
"Kindness with a sharp edge. I understand."
Bibi Dong then asked, "Everyone here is an ordinary person. What do you rely on to maintain peace and stability?"
"The army and education, of course. Don't compare our army to the armies of the Douluo Continent's two great empires. There's simply no comparison.
"Here, I'll find you a video to show you what a modern army looks like."
Tang Fan found a short video from Junhao and played it for Bibi Dong.
The video's contents were naturally shown at the same time on the sky screen over the Douluo Continent.
On the screen, artillery fired in volleys, the sound shaking heaven and earth.
The cannons on helicopters in the air strafed the ground with tremendous power as well.
There were also missiles launched from ships that could hit targets at extreme distances.
At the end of the video, there was a shot of a thermobaric bomb exploding. The terrifying mushroom cloud nearly made Bibi Dong throw the phone away.
Tang Fan hurriedly took the phone from her. He had only bought it recently and couldn't let it break.
"Th-this is an army?"
"Yeah. How does it compare to the Soul Masters of the Douluo Continent?"
"Even a Titled Douluo would die on the spot if they ran into an army like that, wouldn't they?"
Bibi Dong marveled at it, while nearly all the factions on the Douluo Continent were frightened.
When many of the Douluo Continent's factions had heard Tang Fan say that everyone in his world was an ordinary person and there were no Soul Masters, they had looked down on it somewhat.
Now, it seemed that a single modern army could sweep through all the Soul Masters on the Douluo Continent.
Even Tang Chen's eyes widened. He could disregard the other things, but even he couldn't withstand that last thermobaric bomb.
At the end of the day, the Soul Masters of the Douluo Continent were still glass cannons. Transcendents with that kind of setup could never stand against a modern army.
Bo Saixi on Sea God Island and Qian Daoliu in Spirit Hall were likewise pondering whether they could withstand the thermobaric bomb at the end of the video.
In the end, they concluded that even if they used divine power, their chances of withstanding it weren't very high.
"Ji'er, we must give even more careful consideration to all our plans for contact with the world on the other side of the sky screen."
"Yes, I understand, Father. Bibi Dong is my disciple, after all, so our Spirit Hall has a natural advantage."
In the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Fengzhi's eyes lit up as well. If they could obtain those modern weapons on the sky screen, their Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect could undoubtedly rise to power quickly.
Of course, he could only dream about it. Ordinary people in modern society couldn't get their hands on military weapons, let alone him.
Bibi Dong recovered from her earlier shock and asked Tang Fan, "The army here is so powerful. Doesn't the army ever oppress civilians?"
"I can't speak for other countries, but that absolutely doesn't happen on this land. The army is made up of the sons and daughters of ordinary families, so how could it bully ordinary people?
"Besides, our country would never allow that sort of thing to happen. We've always promoted a bond between the army and the people like that between fish and water.
"All right, we've gone off topic. Let's get back to the Clear Sky Sect. If you're still interested in modern armies, I can take you to a military exhibition hall this afternoon."
"Sure. Sorry for the trouble."
"It's fine. You're a guest, so it's only right. Where were we?"
"We were talking about how Spirit Hall didn't dare kill Tang Hao."
"Right. Although Qian Xunji wasn't Qian Daoliu, and the father and son had very different personalities, Qian Daoliu raised him, after all, so his way of doing things also leaned toward the conservative side.
"He really never intended to kill Tang Hao. He was probably so fixated on Ah Yin for Qian Renxue's sake as well.
"Oh, right. The Clear Sky Sect may also have arranged that last part of Tang Hao and Ah Yin's escape route for Tang Hao.
"I mentioned before that Tang Hao was a slave to his sect, and he probably couldn't have imagined his father would set him up.
"In fact, Tang Hao's father may really have known nothing about the plot against him. It was the work of the Clear Sky Sect's elders.
"At that time, Tang Chen of the Clear Sky Sect had disappeared, and Tang Hao's father was growing sicker by the day.
"To secure the Clear Sky Sect's position as the world's number one sect, those elders of the Clear Sky Sect went to such great lengths to lay their plans. Unfortunately for them, everything fell apart at the final step."
"Everything fell apart?"
"Yeah. Have you forgotten? In the book, you killed Qian Xunji after Tang Hao grievously wounded him.
"Qian Daoliu couldn't kill you, so he could only pin it on Tang Hao.
"So things spiraled completely out of control, and Spirit Hall and the Clear Sky Sect went to all-out war.
"In the end, the Clear Sky Sect suffered heavy losses and retreated to its ancestral lands, shutting itself off from the world.
"Speaking of that land belonging to the Clear Sky Sect, it's pretty funny.
"Qian Daoliu once lost a bet to Tang Chen. The condition was that Qian Daoliu could never set foot on the Clear Sky Sect's ancestral lands.
"For the sake of that promise, Qian Daoliu really did let most of the Clear Sky Sect's higher-ups go.
"I really don't know whether to call him a man of his word or stupid beyond belief.
"Once he chose to strike, the feud was already irreconcilable. If he didn't wipe them out completely and instead let them off, wasn't he just planting a mine for himself?
"So Qian Daoliu was at least fifty percent responsible for Spirit Hall's eventual destruction."
On the Douluo Continent, Qian Daoliu's face was as gloomy as still water. When Tang Fan had said before that Spirit Hall was the villain in the book, he had already considered this possibility.
Now, at last, Tang Fan had confirmed it: Spirit Hall was ultimately destroyed.
What was more, Tang Fan had laid most of the blame for Spirit Hall's destruction on him. Even more infuriatingly, when Qian Daoliu followed Tang Fan's reasoning, he really didn't know how to refute it.
The things Qian Daoliu did in the book really were stupider one after another.
"I'm nothing like the man in the book, and I could never do such stupid things. Could there be some conspiracy behind this too?"